RIP thread

[BobL]

Originally Posted by pharoahegypt

Hi All.
I have noticed that one of my greatest sources of pictures for the last ten years seems to have gone. Robb Douglass's Celeb Site hasn't been updated since 4th March, which is a long time considering he used to update twice a wekk at one time. I know he had health problems a couple of years back, an old friend of mine Brumbob used to mail him regularly, but I hadn't heard of anything lately to explain his absence from updates.
Can anyone else shed any light on what has happened to Robb, or indeed my friend Brumbob who i also lost contact with a couple of years back due to his move over to Spain. (He would know me by this name, in fact he is largely responsible for this handle on all my sites.) He was as big a collecter of celeb and model pix as i am now, and i'd love to get into contact with him again. I did try the last email addy i had for him but got no reply.

Thanks in advance for any help in either matter. Pharoah.

Hi Pharoah I am still here was off line for agesbut I am back now

[Dr Shipherd]

This came from the Miami Herald:


She was blond. She was beautiful. And in the 1970s, Carol Ann Marie Vitale was frequently naked in Playboy magazine.

The August 1972 cover girl and Miss July 1974 -- later a Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie designer and host of a long-running, eponymous cable talk show -- died at her Aventura condo on July 23.

Vitale was 61 and had been suffering from lupus and scleroderma for almost a decade, said Marlie Rosen, her personal assistant.

Still, Vitale was taking it all off for Hugh Hefner as late as 1997. That year, she appeared in a spread called Playmate Revisited: Carol Vitale, shot by Miami Shores photographer Bunny Yeager.

'Young men these days are so hot for older women, and I like men of all ages,' the then-50-year-old Vitale declared. ``Just treat me like gold, and you'll never be sorry.'

At her last shoot in 1998, for Yeager's Glamour Girls Then and Now magazine, 'She was very much a perfectionist about how she posed and what she wore,' Yeager said. She brought her own stylist and 'looked just as good' as her younger self.

Born into a blue-collar, Elizabeth, N.J., Catholic family with seven kids, Vitale studied ballet and worked as a Sears credit investigator.

Married briefly after high school, she was soon the single mother of a daughter, dancing on a local TV show ``in miniskirts and boots, in cages.'

Vitale was still a teen when she came to South Florida with her boyfriend, a hairstylist. She danced, modeled, tended bar, won Miss Gulfstream and made the 1969 Miss Florida-World finals before joining the Miami Playboy Club 'hutch' at 21.

She sported the ears and fluffy tail for five years and, as she once wrote, ``cherished every moment of it. I worked diligently and considered myself to be a star student. I performed every task that was delegated to me, including running the coat check, counting inventory and working in the Playmate bar, showroom and lounge area.

``Every job was executed with pride. . . . I would also later appear in several of the Best Bunnies of the Year features in Playboy.'

She won Miami Bunny of the Year in 1972, which earned her the magazine cover. She's in a white bikini, encircled by a red, rabbit-shaped swim tube, in a hotel pool.

Though she'd have to wait another two years for the coveted Playmate title, Vitale appeared often in 'What kind of man reads Playboy?' ads.

Finally a centerfold in '74, she posed in a hammock, wearing only sunglasses. Her vitals at the time: five-foot-six, 115 pounds, 37-22-35.

Carol Vitale is survived by a daughter, Colleen, of California; father John Vitale and stepmother Connie Vitale of New Jersey; and several step-brothers and step-sisters.

She will be buried Saturday at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, near Los Angeles, where she also had a home.

*****

I had the pleasure of meeting Carol (and getting her autograph). I can tell you that she was a very nice person, and in her 50's, was more beautiful than some women half her age.

[Xxphd]

how about a few pics

[Dr Shipherd]

You know ... that might be a good idea.




The latter 2 pictures were taken for a "PM's Forever" pictorial in 1984.

[-Lucifer-]

Did she do softmodeling or did she do porn? Then this threat can be moved to the Classic Models section.

p.s. I love her blond muff.

[the kingk]

A real shame - like many one of the first pages I 'found' on the net

Rip Robb

[lovegod]

wonder if his son will pick up the thread
and continue the web site ?

I think Robb set up this Yahoo Group

go here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hushspace/

[moonpig]

I miss that site, so many happy memories, that "...full of stars" sound effect nearly got me caught out so many times!! RIP Robb

[lovegod]

Originally Posted by Lena

A lot of the stuff still exists if you look for it.

well if it does exist , why not send us a url ?
I can t find the site, even the american url does nt work

this site
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hushsp...guid=187367192


is a site robb set up by robb on yahoo and its still going strong,
His son posts in there a sometimes
I was hoping that his son would take up the reins but
it looks as though hes not doing and the site is probably gone forever
Pity, a lot of work must have gone into it over the years.

[marxz]

her life story with pics..........
http://www.playboy.com/girls/playmat...ory/index.html